David R. Marples is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Alberta. A leading historian in Belarusian Studies, he has previously published several books on Belarus, including Understanding Ukraine and Belarus: A Memoir (2020), "Our Glorious Past": Lukashenka's Belarus and the Great Patriotic War (2014), Belarus: A Denationalized Nation (1999), and Belarus: From Soviet Rule to Nuclear Catastrophe (1996).
